Broken Consorts Ensemble Offspring and Ironwood Chamber Ensemble Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House 28 February 2015 Two ensembles from contrasting backgrounds – Ironwood Chamber ensemble, specialising in historical performance – and Ensemble Offspring – specialising in modern music – collaborated to perform an exquisite recital of works for broken consorts. The intriguing title refers…
Clash or confluence? Ensemble Offspring, Sydney’s innovative New Music ensemble, and Ironwood, specialists in early music join forces to create new sounds in Broken Consorts. Ensemble Offspring says “Like floating through a forest, Broken Consorts envelops the audience in a cocoon of bristlings, warblings and ethereal reverberations—a musical experience that exists across and beyond time.”…
Music from Tudor England meets contemporary sounds with a world premiere of a new Australian work when Ironwood and Ensemble Offspring combine a mix of old and new sounds in their Broken Consort series. Along with early music by William Lawes and Matthew Locke, the programme contains works by Mary Finsterer, Damien Ricketson and…